Amazon Aurora MySQL is compatible with MySQL 5.6 using the InnoDB storage engine. Certain MySQL features like the MyISAM storage engine are not available with Amazon Aurora. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is compatible with PostgreSQL 9.6. The storage layer is virtualized and sits on a proprietary virtualized storage system backed up by SSD. And you pay $0.20 per 1 million IO requests.

The message from them is very clear: “Oracle ATP could reduce the cost of cloud-based transactional database hosting by 65%. Companies seeking to build net-new transactional databases to support Internet of Things, messaging, and other new data-driven businesses should consider Oracle ATP and should do due diligence on Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud for reducing long-term Total Cost of Ownership.”

1. It really is hard to get off an established database, even one that can be as expensive as Oracle can turn out to be.
2. Some of the very largest workloads will not go to the public cloud anytime soon. Maybe never which in internet years is after 2030.

As a kind of proof of how reliable and fast Oracle’s Autonomous Transaction Processing database is consider the following OLTP workload running non-stop in a balanced way without any major spikes and without a single queued statement!

Julian is the Global Database Lead of Accenture. His primary responsibility is managing and leading the Global Oracle Technology Practice which includes Autonomous Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, Database Services, Engineered Systems, Java, Middleware, Security and all other areas falling under Oracle Technology. He is also the Accenture-Enkitec Group Managing Director for ... Continue reading →